Microsoft VP: "I personally got burnt" by Vista Capable stickers

The "Vista Capable" sticker consumers certainly caused a lot of confusion, and it looks like it also raised some senior Microsoft execs. According to an internal MS-E-mails introduced as evidence in the ongoing judicial proceedings on the programme, several MS-managers expressed concern that they were misleading people, with the VP of Product Management for Windows say: "I PERSONALLY burned. .. I now have an e-mail machine, $ 2100 "And Jim Allchin say MS had" really botched "program and that it" had to do a better job with our customers. "Of course, the main reason for the confusion The multiple editions of Windows Vista, with different capabilities depending on your hardware, but this is a subtle point, with a sticker - or, as a Microsoft employee acknowledged in an e-mail, "Even a piece of junk qualify "Vista Capable. That is a pretty damning stuff, but the case is not anywhere near resolution yet - the judge has not yet decided whether to certify as a class action, which, as it seems, depends on a technical reading of Microsoft was exactly what advertising Throughout the Vista Capable program. We know in 10 days if the judge has said that it will a decision - we would imagine that the plaintiffs' legal team has a lot more of these e-mails store and if this is the case.